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Study Traces a Billion Years of Oxygen and Ocean Habitats

Original: The Evolution Of Oxygen, Temperature, And Marine Aerobic Habitat For Animals Over The Last Billion Years Of Earth History

A new study reconstructs how oxygen levels and temperature evolved over the last billion years of Earth's history, and how these changes shaped the marine aerobic habitat available to animals. By modeling these environmental factors together, researchers outline when oceans became habitable enough for complex animal life and how conditions shifted across deep time.

Why now: Interest in deep-time Earth history and what past oxygen and temperature shifts reveal about the conditions that allowed animal life to emerge.

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